As designed Admins are not Admins?

Well-known member

I created the admin to my account. I then created my own user "Chousho" and wanted to make that an admin, as well.

I registered my Chousho account on my board (user id 2) and did not complete the e-mail confirmation. Instead I logged on in another browser to my admin account (user id 1), set Chousho's User Group to Administrative and the account to valid.

I could not see the Admin option for Chousho. So I added secondary groups Admin and Mod. Still could not see.

I had to go through Administrators, add admin, select my name and then it would show up. Through this action, the only visible difference to me is the un-checking of "Administrative" in the secondary user group on admin.php?users/chousho.2/edit

Is this a bug, or merely a bit of a mix up? It seems like it could be a bit more intuitive.

XenForo developer

No this is how it works - hence why there are the links to make someone an admin or moderator near the user group selector. Changing the user group does not automatically give the status of an admin or mod.

Well-known member

Hmm, that answers that. Although just to let you know it is a little bit confusing that changing their user group does not make their them become that user group, as that is what the appearance seems to be.

So just to give my opinion on this one thing that it could be a little more intuitive, then.

Well-known member

No this is how it works - hence why there are the links to make someone an admin or moderator near the user group selector. Changing the user group does not automatically give the status of an admin or mod.